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(No Model.)

S. SOHEUER. FRAME FOR POCKET BOOKS.

Patented Ndv. 15,1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON SOHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FRAME FOR POCKET-BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,128, dated November 15, 1892.

Application filed May 27,1892- Serial No. 434,545. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SIMON SOHEUER, of New York city, New York, have invented an Improved Frame for Pocket-Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a frame for pocketbooks, purses, and similar articles, having a catch of peculiar construction, which is concealed within the frame.

It consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a purse provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the frame, showing it open; Fig. 3, a top View of part of the frame, showing it broken away at the center.

The letters a, a represent the two curved jaws or frames of a purse or pocket-book I), connected at their ends by pivots a, as usual. The frames at are L-shaped in cross-section and abut against one another when closed. Within each frame a there is attached beneath the upper flange and within the corner formed by the two flanges an outwardly-projecting headed pin a. The shanks of the pins 0 are not twisted or curved, but are straight, and the pins are entirely concealed and protected by the frames, with the exception of the heads 0, that project outward to a slight extent. When the frames are pushed together, the headed pins 0 will interlock by yielding laterally, as will be readily understood, while when the frames aredrawn apart by means of suitable handles d the pins 0 will release their hold upon each other.

A peculiarity of the construction is that the pins 0 face and approach each other head foremost, and not from side to side, as is the case with the well-known upwardly-projecting bent-pin fasteners.

What 1 claim is The combination of a pair of pivotally-connected jaws that are L-shaped in cross-section with a pair of laterally-yielding pins secured within the angles of the frames and facing each other with their headed interlocking ends, substantially as specified.

SIMON SCHEUER.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, A. J ONGHMANS. 

